Yeah, I come from very blue blood Boston on my dad’s side. I’ve never heard a bad word about black people, but don’t get them started on the Irish Catholics running the police department or city hall. There of course is the typical limousine liberal racism in the wealthy suburbs, but the really virulent stuff was…

Dude, where did you come from originally? I am from Boston originally and now have been bouncing around rural New England (after several countries and other cities). All we have here are classic rock stations. Boston at least has some college stations and hip hop.

The political cowardice/convenience that caused the Republicans to pretend there is no right wing domestic terrorism certainly has something to do with it.

As this site points out frequently, the real issue is ingrained white supremacy. Sure, back in the 40s and 50s it was the KKK, but the neo nazi skinheads in the 80s weren’t the issue preventing progress in this country. I don’t know what dirtbike did or did not do, or is or is not doing, but acting like violently…

The were violent street battles with the Communists and the Nazis were banned and arrested at various points. Obviously something different should have been done and there were plenty of people who didn’t take them seriously enough until it was too late, but to simplify it to say people were basically ignoring them…

While this is all true in general, I think the most obvious difference between here and Germany is that Nazi Germany was defeated by other countries, and the post-war era was controlled by other countries, who conceived of Germany solely as enemies. The US was a civil war. In essence, the backlash during…

I think I accidentally gave my Aryan 3-year-old this hair cut. I am not very good with clippers and scissors.

When my friends and I were in high school and wanted to play a prank, we painted the school windows with flowers and animals. In washable paint. We were total nerds, but we definitely understood how not to be an asshole. 13-year-old boys might not understand the line between being transgressive-funny and…

Yeah, my college friend who has descended into racist, thin blue line territory had a dad who was a cop and now basically only interacts with other cops on social media. He seemed normal in our very liberal university, but the self-reinforcing bubble he is in is scary.

I do see a difference between the two pull quotes at least. The way VF summarized it implies Srey Moch was selected because she cries so well, whereas the transcript shows she was selected because she lied so well because the game was about lying as opposed to crying. I think we can still debate the ethics of making…

I love okra, but cooked greens are awful. I love baby kale salad, and sautéed baby kale or spinach, but boiled....gag.

Depends what you mean by “protect themselves”. I don’t think there is a single white person who doesn’t harbor some sort of subconscious bias about black people, but speaking from experience, I am white and I don’t think I have ever personally heard a racial slur or know someone I think would beat up black people for…

I sometimes have weird dissociative feelings, but I am not sure if it is due to depression or anxiety or some other disorder. This feeling of not being totally in my body switches on and off. I am a huge procrastinator, spacey and disorganized, but I think it is more depression-related.

I mean, it is very possible that he is just an asshole. But I also think it is unfair to expect him to parent the kids when he doesn’t want to, and leaving them with the mother sounds like it would basically be making him do most of the work. Hard to tell one way or the other without more details.

I thought it was a bit slow, but yes, George R. R. Martin should take note that sometimes you just need to get your characters where they are supposed to be in the end.

I agree. It needed more than that to be the culminating scene, but it was just...boring. Lots of way too long shots of her wandering around. Of course, I am not a big Dany fan, so that may have something to do with it. I feel like both her and Jon Snow are poorly acted, and the idea that she feels she is somehow…

Sometimes the worshipper/worshippee dynamic works well. But that is kind of hard to keep going for decades of marriage...

So, I work at the state, not federal level. But at public hearings, you can just get up and say, “Hi, this is Joe from Wherever Town. I support this bill, because of X, Y, and Z.” If you submit written comments, those will typically have a cover letter, but whether you submit and email address in the cover letter…

I feel like his is already becoming more of a burden to them. From Trey Gowdy’s reaction, I think they are seriously seeing the Russian story as something that will never die and prevent them from getting anything else done.

God. I have an ex-college friend like this. He also occasionally has the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag as a profile picture when he doesn’t have the thin blue line. I just can’t deal with the level of irony.